UK TV contestant Danny Cross finds love again after wife's murder

11 months ago

'The children are really happy'

UPDATE -- In 2015, UK TV contestant Danny Cross listened helplessly on the phone as his wife was murdered - now he is rebuilding his life.

The 40-year-old has revealed he has found love again, after the tragic incident, with Alex Wells, 27, a mental health physician.
According to The Sun, Cross revealed his impending nuptials in an interview with BBC Three Counties Radio.

"I'm engaged to Alex. She's a remarkable woman. We're moving forward and hopefully going to get married next year. The children are really happy."

Danny has found love again with Alex Wells (Facebook @alexandra.wells1)

Earlier this year, 9Honey reported on the moment when Danny Cross revealed he had heard the murder of his wife. Read the full article below.

UK TV contestant Danny Cross reduced viewers to tears last night as he told how he listened over the phone to the brutal murder of his wife.

Photo: SAS: Who Dares Wins / Channel 4

4SAS: Who Dares Wins contestant Cross, 40, told how he listened helplessly over the phone as his children sobbed, the night he lost the love of his life, 37-year-old wife Nicola in 2015.

As he was working 200 miles away from their home, IT specialist Danny said Nicola had called him because she saw someone hanging around the house and felt unsafe.

"It was late one night. I was working away from home and my wife called me to say she was worried about a man that had been hanging around outside the house.

"She was on the phone to me when the man broke in through the back door. A schizophrenic.

He had a knife and he picked up another knife from the knife block and killed her.

"I was on the phone to Nikki and heard everything. I heard children crying at the other end of the phone. I could Isabella trying to wake mummy up, saying "wake up, wake up.

Photo: SAS: Who Dares Wins / Channel 4

"A few minutes later I heard the police arriving and I had to cut the line then. I couldn't listen to anymore."

Marcin Porczynski, a 27-year-old schizophrenic, broke in and fatally stabbed Nicola after attempting to kidnap the couple's two children.

In court, Cross, who exited the show due to a knee injury this week, told how the phone call "plays over and over in my head".

In a statement to the judge, he added: "I will never forgive myself for not being there to protect her."

Viewers of the show - which tests the endurance of normal people put into SAS training situations - were quick to come out and praise Cross for his bravery, with the father of two crediting his kids with keeping him going during the hardest of times. He's now set up a facebook page called Nikki's Wishes in her memory.

"I could have crumbled in that situation' he said. "I just had to keep going for the kids. I think that without them I would be in a very different place, I'm sure of it.

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"Even though they miss mummy, they are happy kids.

"It gives you an inner power to know that you can cope and you can deal with things. Not a lot phases me now."